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No real changes this week, except they did grow a lot, I hope to weigh a couple today.
I am noticing way smaller chest/breast on these birds. Last time they were top heavy and reminded me of a duck when they walked. These look like normal chickens, almost.
I am happy with the weight gain they made this week. I have been feeding them a little heavier. Yesterday morning, I put a paper feed sack on the ground in their area and poured their feed on it. They left it all day and never touched it. Not one of them. I dumped the feed into the tractor when I locked them up last night and they ate it....
This morning I put the bag on the ground in their tractor and poured their feed on it, they ate it, but were very leery of the bag.... They have been playing on empty feed sacks for weeks, silly critters!
I was going to butcher some of my other roosters today, so last night I went to capture the unlucky ones. I found only 6 of my flock are big enough, and 2 of those 6 are my future baby daddys.
I just counted the weeks and the others are only 13 weeks, I guess that is too young for many breeds. Hopefully, they will be ready when these cx's are.
I am noticing way smaller chest/breast on these birds. Last time they were top heavy and reminded me of a duck when they walked. These look like normal chickens, almost.
I am happy with the weight gain they made this week. I have been feeding them a little heavier. Yesterday morning, I put a paper feed sack on the ground in their area and poured their feed on it. They left it all day and never touched it. Not one of them. I dumped the feed into the tractor when I locked them up last night and they ate it....
This morning I put the bag on the ground in their tractor and poured their feed on it, they ate it, but were very leery of the bag.... They have been playing on empty feed sacks for weeks, silly critters!
I was going to butcher some of my other roosters today, so last night I went to capture the unlucky ones. I found only 6 of my flock are big enough, and 2 of those 6 are my future baby daddys.
I just counted the weeks and the others are only 13 weeks, I guess that is too young for many breeds. Hopefully, they will be ready when these cx's are.